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“According to a recent report by the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy (ASOP) EU, criminals making falsified medicines in Europe generate sales of more than €1.4 billion each year – and that may be a conservative figure.

There are relatively small penalties for criminals trafficking counterfeit medicine, but huge potential profits. Prosecuting criminals in this trade is difficult because the crime crosses many international borders. Online pharmacies have intensified the problem, allowing suppliers to send fake medicine directly to patients.

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XCHANGE™ technology makes changing syringes simple, quick. And the eVol® is the first user calibrated analytical syringe – no need to send it back to the dealer for recalibration. eVol® was also specialized for MEPS®, which performs the same function as SPE, the purification and speciation of samples, but with the advantage that MEPS® works with much smaller samples (as small as 3.6µL). Not only that, but eVol® works well with NMR sample prep, allowing for recovery of precious samples from NMR tubes and ‘in tube’ sample dilution and mixing.

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This time, scientists have found that Mount Etna’s lava stones may be leaching manganese into the Sicilian drinking water.

The symptoms of manganism and Parkinson’s disease are similar: tremors, impaired motor skills, rigidity and more. The number of Parkinson’s sufferers around Mount Etna has been high enough to stump doctors’ explanations. Manganism might be the answer.

Lava rocks from Mount Etna were recently tested with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). XPS allowed scientists to study the composition of the rock bellow the surface by a few nanometers. Water samples also showed dangerously high levels of manganese; this will, over time, cause manganism.

Scientists at Berkeley Lab weren’t setting out to take beautiful pictures of molecules breaking and reforming chemical bonds, this just happened to be a surprising side benefit of trying to cause the reactions (Source).

“‘Nobody has ever taken direct, single-bond-resolved images of individual molecules, right before and immediately after a complex organic reaction,’ Fischer”, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab and professor at the University of California – Berkeley, said (Source).

These images improve scientists’ understanding of chemical reactions and will continue to do so in the future as technologies advance.

In 2010, in the Bayou Chaland area of Louisiana, a massive fish kill was discovered. Scientists say it was a combination of oxygen-deprived water due to agricultural runoff, coupled with the deadly Gulf oil spill.Photo by: P.J. Hahn, Plaquemines Parish (Source)

As much as I love food and water, I didn’t realize how much is due to phosphorus, a naturally occurring chemical compound “formed millions of years ago from old coral reefs and sedimentary deposits.” This chemical is important for our survival because “the Earth’s current geological phosphorus supplies are intensively mined to produce modern fertilizers” (Source).

And these supplies of phosphorus are getting harder to find and mine.

Population increases combined with agricultural advances puts added pressure on this essential chemical. “Today, there are a few U.S. and international phosphorus mines, but the largest deposits are located in the conflicted African country of Morocco. That makes accessing future phosphorus supplies uncertain” (Source).

While runoff from industrialized nations’ farms pollutes nearby waters, developing countries’ farmers can’t afford the skyrocketing phosphorus prices to help support their crops.

You now have the option to apply to be a distributor for esyringe®. Universities and government agencies are welcome to apply as well.

Your account can now save shopping lists. Need approval from the purchasing department? Just save your products to your “May Supplies” shopping list and have them log in to esyringe.com when it’s convenient.

Berkeley Lab researchers work on new building standards after discovering previously unknown indoor air pollutants.

Photo Credit: iStock

For decades, no one worried much about the air quality inside people’s homes unless there was secondhand smoke or radon present. Then scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) made the discovery that the aggregate health consequences of poor indoor air quality are as significant as those from all traffic accidents or infectious diseases in the United States. One major source of indoor pollutants in the home is cooking.